Girl, 9, charged in fatal stabbing of 11-year-old

NEW YORK -- A 9-year-old girl fatally stabbed an 11-year-old girl in the chest with a steak knife during a fight over a ball, authorities said. The fourth-grader was charged with manslaughter.

The victim, Queen Washington, 11, was pronounced dead at a hospital.

"I don't understand how this could happen," Joyce Porter, Queen's grandmother, told The New York Times. She said Queen's mother had called her earlier that afternoon. "She told me, 'Queen is dead,' " Porter said, adding, "It was over a ball."